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You Are the Public Justice Center YOU ARE THE PUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER 2016 REPORT With support both from the Rikki Fleisher Fund for Professional Development LOOK AT WHAT YOU ACCOMPLISHED IN and from you, the Public Justice Center staff has been exploring how race equity applies to our mission to build a just society. We are committed to confronting racism at its roots and this position informs our work every day. This spring, we publicly stated our position in the following statement. HUMAN RIGHT CHAMPIONS APPELLATE TO HOUSING OF JUSTICE ADVOCACY 3 5 6 RACE EQUITY We use legal tools ACCESS TO Statement of Solidarity (originally published Spring 2016) HEALTH AND to pursue social EDUCATION th DONORS PUBLIC justice, economic On April 18 , leaders of nine Black-led organizations working for racial justice and economic STABILITY 9 development in Baltimore’s Black communities released a Statement of Solidarity to BENEFITS and race equity, 8 commemorate the first anniversary of the Baltimore Uprising. Their statement offers a counter- 10 and fundamental narrative to the mainstream media’s framing of last April’s events: making clear that the Uprising human rights. was not just about the death of Freddie Gray, and that Black-led as well as other organizations continue to work in those communities the media and policy makers have forgotten. NCCRC PRISONERS’ National Coalition for a RIGHTS The Public Justice Center is one of those other organizations, and fully supports this Statement Civil Right to Counsel 15 of Solidarity and its commitment to community-led struggle. The PJC is currently a white- 12 led organization. We use legal tools to pursue social justice, economic and race equity, and fundamental human rights. Many of our projects target the issues that impact neighborhoods NCCRC like Mr. Gray’s, neighborhoods that experience historical and current police abuse and racist National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel PJC IN THE WORKPLACE disinvestment, and the entrenched poverty, lack of economic opportunity, and substandard COMMUNITY JUSTICE housing that are its consequences. We represent tenants facing eviction and substandard housing 21 16 conditions, workers whose earned wages are stolen by their employers, homeless, foster, and NCCRC National Coalition for a unaccompanied youth who are struggling to get their free and appropriate public education, Civil Right to Counsel and families who desperately need health care. One of our projects specifically supports community organizing efforts that are Black-led and ACCOLADES whose membership is of the impacted neighborhoods. The Public Justice Center and Right NCCRC 22 National Coalition for a to Housing Alliance (RTHA) released the report Justice Diverted: How Renters Are Processed Civil Right to Counsel in Baltimore City’s Rent Court. Now the PJC’s Human Right to Housing Project is working with the 7,000 Families Campaign, whose coalition members include RTHA, Baltimore Bloc, Showing Up for Racial Justice, Jews United for Justice, Bristol House, Chase House, and BALT, and is demanding reforms at the courts, City Hall, and Annapolis. SPECIAL The PJC is also a founding member of the Baltimore Housing Roundtable, which released the THANKS report Community + Land + Trust: Tools for Development Without Displacement. The Baltimore AWARDS Housing Roundtable is advocating for community-controlled land trusts to wrest control of our housing from developers and governments, and to create affordable housing and good paying LITIGATION jobs for low-income residents. 30TH ANNIVERSARY PARTNERSHIP CELEBRATION 23 The media and policy makers may have moved on from the people who live in neighborhoods 24 like Freddie Gray’s, but the Movement has only grown stronger in the last year, and the Public Justice Center is committed to being a supportive ally in solidarity with community-led and Black-led organizations. STAFF NEWS STAFF BOARD FINANCIALS 28 VOLUNTEERS 28 29 You can read the original Statement of Solidarity here http://bit.ly/2eK3qDu. 28 PJC 2016 | 1 “The eviction process exacerbates the problem of urban poverty by upending all the daily routines that people have come to rely on in order to get by on their meager incomes, … It disrupts children’s school attendance and their ability to learn … As a matter of law and equity it’s YOU PROTECT: unconscionable that tenants in Maryland should have far fewer rights in HUMAN RIGHT such disputes than those anywhere else in the country.” TO HOUSING “Out of House and Home,” Baltimore Sun Editorial, 12/7/2015 This year, the Public Justice Center co-led two long-term projects that analyze the crisis of affordable, equitable housing in Baltimore and proposed systemic solutions. JUSTICE DIVERTED: The only question How Renters are Processed in the Baltimore City Rent Court “ they ask you is, 150,000 evictions are filed each year in Baltimore City’s ‘rent ‘So you agree with court.’ Nearly 7,000 families are evicted each year. The rate of rent eviction is 5.8 per 100 households, a staggering number that is nearly double the foreclosure the amount that rate at the peak of the housing crisis in 2009. is owed?’ They In December, we published an in-depth study showing how thousands of quick, don’t take the time cheap eviction actions overwhelm the Court’s capacity to fairly enforce tenants’ rights to get your side of to safe and healthy housing. This new research dives deep into Baltimore’s eviction the story. crisis, one that takes a particularly heavy toll on women and African Americans. ” Key findings from the study include: ◆◆ Demand that landlords document their rent claims and that judges Legislative Reform ◆◆ Baltimore City’s Rent Court is strictly scrutinize their claims of The publication of Justice Diverted designed to efficiently handle its compliance with lead paint and kicked off the 7,000 Families Campaign, immense caseload by diverting licensing laws. a grassroots-led coalition – including the renters away from presenting their Right to Housing Alliance, Chase House, cases to the judge. ◆◆ Level the playing field by increasing Bristol House Tenants Association, Jews tenants’ access to legal information, ◆◆ The Court turns a blind eye to the United for Justice, Baltimore Bloc, Showing assistance at court, and legal nearly 80% of landlords who are not Up for Racial Justice, and the Public Justice representation. in compliance with the state’s lead Center – that works to stop the eviction paint laws and whose cases should ◆◆ Expand licensing and property pipeline and make lasting change for be thrown out. inspection requirements so that all renting families in Baltimore. rental housing meets health and ◆◆ Nearly 60% of renters had valid legal Widespread Media Attention safety standards. reasons to withhold rent, such as the With guidance from Voices for Civil landlord’s failure to address mold, ◆◆ Fund eviction prevention programs to Justice, we reached a large local and pests, or lack of heat. Yet more than meet the scale of the eviction crisis. national audience upon the publication of 90% of them lost their eviction case Justice Diverted. The PJC drew attention because they couldn’t afford a lawyer Justice Diverted is based on hundreds of from online, print and radio media and didn’t understand their rights surveys, extensive interviews, review of outlets including Reuters, ThinkProgress, under the law. Most landlords have court records, and court watch. Led by Slate, Bloomberg, Mother Jones, The lawyers or other representatives attorney Zafar Shah, the Public Justice International Business Times, Maryland experienced in court process. Center conducted and wrote the study in Morning and the Baltimore Sun. Pam collaboration with the Right to Housing Fessler featured the PJC’s report in a story The study recommends several reforms: Alliance, Dan Pasciuti, Ph.D., of Johns on NPR’s All Things Considered, showing Hopkins University, and Michele Cotton, ◆◆ Cut the number of eviction cases in the reality many families face with the J.D., Ph.D., of the University of Baltimore. half by requiring a pre-filing notice dismal threat of eviction nationwide. We thank the Abell Foundation for of eviction, so that renters can funding this study. adequately prepare a defense or fairly resolve the dispute out of court. Guests at the PJC 30TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Photo by WIDE ANGLE YOUTH MEDIA 2 | PJC 2016 PJC 2016 | 3 CHAMPIONS YOU PROTECT: OF JUSTICE together we are HUMAN RIGHT building a just society TO HOUSING DONORS Campaign to Amend the Significant Litigation Baltimore City Charter Victories for Tenants 2016 COMMUNITY+ LAND + TRUST: In summer 2016, the PJC participated in The Public Justice Center, along with In October 2015, the Circuit Court The following donors have shared with Tools for Development Without Displacement an intense outreach campaign known as Homeless Persons Representation for Baltimore City granted plaintiffs’ the Public Justice Center generous “Housing for All” to collect signatures Project, Maryland Legal Aid, Disability motion for class certification in Tiffany contributions totaling $1,000 or more. that placed the creation of an Affordable Bennett et. al. v. Dunne Wright The Public Justice Center is a founding member of the Baltimore Rights Maryland (formerly Maryland Your gifts afford the flexibility to meet Housing Trust Fund on the November Services, LLC et al. This is a class Disability Law Center), the ACLU of injustice where it rises and to use the tools Housing Roundtable, a coalition to explore bringing more election ballot in Baltimore City. The Trust Maryland, and the national NAACP, action with eleven counts alleging an necessary to balance the scales of justice — permanently affordable, community-driven housing to Baltimore. Fund would receive ongoing public and represented the complainants. illegal fee and fee-churning scheme no matter how long it takes. We consider private funding for the production of by a Baltimore area landlord that In January 2016, the Roundtable published Community + Land + affordable housing for families in the city The complaint alleged that manages over 750 rental units.
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